[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 119 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3662]
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  SA 2220. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Barrasso) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle F of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3168. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON EXTENSION OF LIMITATIONS ON 
                   IMPORTATION OF URANIUM FROM RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) a secure nuclear fuel supply chain is essential to the 
     economic and national security of the United States;
       (2) the United States should--
       (A) expeditiously complete negotiation of an extension of 
     the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on 
     Uranium from the Russian Federation (commonly referred to as 
     the ``Russian Suspension Agreement''); or
       (B) if an agreement to extend the Russian Suspension 
     Agreement cannot be reached, complete the antidumping 
     investigation under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
     U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) with respect to imports of uranium from 
     the Russian Federation--
       (i) to avoid unfair trade in uranium and maintain a nuclear 
     fuel supply chain in the United States, consistent with the 
     national security and nonproliferation goals of the United 
     States; and
       (ii) to protect the United States nuclear fuel supply chain 
     from the continued manipulation of the global and United 
     States uranium markets by the Russian Federation and Russian-
     influenced competitors;
       (3) a renegotiated, long-term extension of the Russian 
     Suspension Agreement can prevent adversaries of the United 
     States from monopolizing the nuclear fuel supply chain;
       (4) as was done in 2008, upon completion of a new 
     negotiated long-term extension of the Russian Suspension 
     Agreement, Congress should enact legislation to codify the 
     terms of extension into law to ensure long-term stability for 
     the domestic nuclear fuel supply chain; and
       (5) if the negotiations to extend the Russian Suspension 
     Agreement prove unsuccessful, Congress should be prepared to 
     enact legislation to prevent the manipulation by the Russian 
     Federation of global uranium markets and potential domination 
     by the Russian Federation of the United States uranium 
     market.
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